Our UNESCO World Heritage Sites List

We love slow travel. While we try to avoid ‘checklist’ style travel, we do both have a passion for UNESCO World Heritage Sites and sometimes (often) go out of our way to visit them.

We stand behind UNESCO’s mission to preserve these sites for future generations while still making them accessible to the public today. It’s not always a perfect balance, but on the whole, we’ve found the World Heritage Sites to be engaging, educational and well worth seeking out.

While some UNESCO sites are crowded tourist destinations, there are many hidden gems, which make them perfect places to visit for slow travellers like us. Especially now that UNESCO also recognises cultural heritage, the sites also provide insight into the local culture – something we strive to do on our travels.

Below you’ll find a list of the sites we’ve visited over the years, (mostly together, although some of the early sites are from Alison’s childhood travels.) We’ve included the year we visited (if we remember it) and links to the articles we’ve written about each site. Of course, we haven’t written about every UNESCO site we’ve visited, so we’ve also included links to the listing on UNESCO’s website.

We are Canadians, Alison & Andrew, and we are slow travelling the world – with our cats. We believe every destination has a story to tell and that the journey truly is the destination. We travel slow – because everywhere is somewhere. read more...